Perspectives of Systems Informatics

Programming Issues.- The Verifying Compiler: A Grand Challenge for Computing Research.- Linear Types for Cashflow Reengineering.- Storing Properties in Grouped Tagged Tuples.- A Polymorphic Radix-n Framework for Fast Fourier Transforms.- Intersecting Classes and Prototypes.- Software Engineering.- Bending without Breaking: Making Software More Flexible.- Program Construction in the Context of Evolutionary Computation.- A Layered Architecture Sustaining Model-Driven and Event-Driven Software Development.- Software Education.- The Outside-In Method of Teaching Introductory Programming.- Program Synthesis, Transformation, and Semantics.- Numeric Types in Formal Synthesis.- On the Possibility of Provably Secure Obfuscating Programs.- Verification-Oriented Language C-Light and Its Structural Operational Semantics.- Proofs-as-Imperative-Programs: Application to Synthesis of Contracts.- Graphical Interfaces.- On the Visualization and Aesthetics of Large Graphs.- Data Mappings in the Model-View-Controller Pattern.- Partial Evaluation and Supercompilation.- The Translation Power of the Futamura Projections.- A Compiler Generator for Constraint Logic Programs.- The Supercompiler SCP4: General Structure.- Partial Evaluation for Common Intermediate Language.- Verification.- Timed Verification with ?CRL.- Verification of Distributed Dataspace Architectures.- Using SPIN and STeP to Verify Business Processes Specifications.- Integrating Tools for Automatic Program Verification.- Logic and Types.- A Logical Reconstruction of Reachability.- Recent Advances in ?-Definability over Continuous Data Types.- Concurrent and Distributed Systems.- Open Maps and Trace Semantics for Timed Partial Order Models.- Confidentiality for Multithreaded Programs via Bisimulation.- Dynamic Modification ofSystem Structures Using LLPNs.- Concurrent and Reactive Systems.- Principles for Entity Authentication.- Causality and Replication in Concurrent Processes.- Event-Driven Traversal of Logic Circuits for Re-evaluation of Boolean Functions in Reactive Systems.- Teams of Pushdown Automata.- Program Specification.- Algebraic State Machines: Concepts and Applications to Security.- Combining Aspects of Reactive Systems.- OCL Extended with Temporal Logic.- The Definition of Transitive Closure with OCL - Limitations and Applications -.- Verification and Model Checking.- Improving the Consistency Checking Process by Reusing Formal Verification Knowledge.- Complexity of Model Checking by Iterative Improvement: The Pseudo-Boolean Framework.- Polynomial Approximations for Model Checking.- Constraint Programming.- Separating Search and Strategy in Solver Cooperations.- Industrial Application of External Black-Box Functions in Constraint Programming Solver.- LGS: Geometric Constraint Solver.- On Strategies of the Narrowing Operator Selection in the Constraint Propagation Method.- Documentation and Testing.- PROG -- A New Program Documentation System.- Integration of Functional and Timed Testing of Real-Time and Concurrent Systems.- Test Case Generation for UML Statecharts.- Databases.- Conceptual Content Modeling and Management.- A Relational Algebra for Functional Logic Deductive Databases.- Implication of Functional Dependencies for Recursive Queries.- TeXOR: Temporal XML Database on an Object-Relational Database System.- Functional Dependencies, from Relational to XML.- Data-Object Replication, Distribution, and Mobility in Network Environments.- Natural Language Processing.- Multi-classification of Patent Applications with Winnow.- Automatic Evaluation of Quality of anExplanatory Dictionary by Comparison of Word Senses.- An Approach to Automatic Construction of a Hierarchical Subject Domain for Question Answering Systems.